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DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead — - App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge
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| Financial Times: |
Tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 16%+, AVGO down 17%+, TSM down 14%+, AMD down 5%+, ASML down 6%+, and MSFT down 3%+ — Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks tumbled on Monday as advances …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepSeek debuts a family of multimodal, MIT-licensed open-source models including Janus-Pro-7B, which it claims beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 in GenEval and DPG-Bench — DeepSeek, the viral AI company, has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI's DALL-E 3.| Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: |
How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at a fraction of the cost: open source, pure reinforcement learning, no supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero — DeepSeek R1's Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what's required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An in-depth look at DeepSeek: DeepSeekMoE and DeepSeekMLA, cheap V3 training, the US chip ban, “distillation” from other models, impact on Nvidia, AGI, and more — It's Monday, January 27. Why haven't you written about DeepSeek yet? — I did! I wrote about R1 last Tuesday.
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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
DeepSeek says it's temporarily limiting new user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services — DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, though existing users will be able to log in as usual.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
DeepSeek could be an extinction-level event for venture capital firms that went all-in on foundational model companies; investors say they are not panicking — - It's an open-source project hatched by a hedge fund, which at least for now seems aimed at developers instead of at enterprises or consumers.
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
DeepSeek's use of commodity, disconnected hardware, and open-source design is enough of a shot at AI hyper scaling that it could be “the way things will go” — DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside …
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Bluesky: @airnomad1. X: @scottbelsky, @stevenloi, @johnmccrea, @eduardk, @bharatvasan, and @simonvlc
| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek shows the complete lack of lock-in that any of these chatbots have, and such a powerful model coming from China may cement “AGI” as a national project — - The arrival of such a powerful model coming out of China has the potential to cement the narrative that the race to achieve …
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X: @danprimack, @devahaz, @thestalwart, and @thestalwart
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X: @modestproposal1, @finbarrtimbers, @brij, @wordgrammer, @jasonprompts, @mark_k, @steph_palazzolo, and @matthewstoller. Forums: r/technology
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Source: Perplexity AI revises its TikTok US merger proposal to ByteDance, allowing for the US government to own up to 50% of the new company upon a future IPO — Perplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance.
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Bluesky: @tappedlands.com and @tyleraking.com
Forums: r/news, r/technology, and r/technews
| Reuters: |
Court filing: Indian digital news outlets, including NDTV, Network18, and Hindustan Times, join a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, first filed by ANI in 2024 — Digital news units of Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, and other outlets like the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times …
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| Bloomberg: |
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